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Wednesday 25th, June, 2025 (Day 1)

Executive Committee Meeting (Invite only)

09:30 - 11:00 Wednesday, 25th June, 2025

Location White Hall 200



Lunch for Matt McGue Festschrift

11:00 - 12:00 Wednesday, 25th June, 2025

Location Student Center Dining Hall



Matt McGue Festschrift

12:15 - 18:00 Wednesday, 25th June, 2025

Location White Hall 208



Welcome Reception

18:30 - 19:00, New Member Reception, Wednesday, 25th June, 2025

Location The Trolley Barn


19:00 - 21:00 Wednesday, 25th June, 2025

Location The Trolley Barn



Thursday 26th, June, 2025 (Day 2)

Presidential Symposium: The Next Generation of Behavior Genetics

09:00 - 10:30 Thursday, 26th June, 2025

Location White Hall 208

 

200 Genetic nurture, the nature of nurture, and shared environmental influence (S, V)

Yujing Lin1, Francesca Procopio1, Engin Keser1, Kaito Kawakami1, Thalia Eley1, Kaili Rimfeld2,1, Margherita Malanchini3,1, Robert Plomin1

1King's College London, London, United Kingdom. 2Royal Holloway University of London, London, United Kingdom. 3Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

134 (WITHDRAWN) Combining Population – Wide Variance EnWAS and a Large Genotyped Sample of Trios to Detect Gene – Environment Interactions in MoBa



 

23 Measuring genetic effects on educational attainment in a changing society: no evidence of substantial difference between Soviet and post-Soviet era in Estonia (S, V)

Ivan Kuznetsov1, Kelli Lehto2, Vasili Pankratov1,3, Kaili Rimfeld4,5

1Centre for Genomics, Evolution and Medicine, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia. 2Estonian Genome Centre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia. 3Bioinformatics Research Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, Aarhus, Denmark. 4Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom. 5Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, United Kingdom

 

132 Have genetic influences on alcohol and tobacco use changed over time? Investigating SNP by birth year interaction effects in up to 687,000 UK Biobank and All of Us Participants. (S)

Jordan Alexander1, Gretchen Saunders1, Avantika Diwadkar2, Havell Markus2, Dajiang Liu2, Scott Vrieze1

1University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA. 2The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, USA

 

201 Do Heightened Motor Activity Levels in Infancy Reflect Genetic Propensity for ADHD?A Polygenic Score Analysis of Infants With and Without a Family History of Neurodevelopmental Conditions (S, V)

Hattie Ruffer1, Emma Meaburn1, Anna Gui1, H Patel1, C Curtis1, G Pasco1, J Begum-Ali1, T Charman1, M Johnson1, Emily Jones2

1Birkbeck, London, United Kingdom. 2King's College, London, United Kingdom



Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:00 Thursday, 26th June, 2025

Location White Hall Lower Lobby



Educational Attainment and Cognitive Development

11:00 - 12:30 Thursday, 26th June, 2025

Location White Hall 206

 

186 Nurture and nonshared environment in cognitive development (V)

Robert Plomin, Kaito Kawakami

Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

 

182 Charting the psychological development of children using ‘polygenic IQ scores’ (V)

Robert Plomin, Yujing Lin

King's College London, London, United Kingdom

 

53 Arithmetic and Reading in Childhood and Adolescence Are Genetically Associated with Achievement Measures in Adults

Giulia Borriello1, Robin Corley2, Sally Wadsworth2, Chandra Reynolds2, Daniel Gustavson2

1Kent State University, Kent, USA. 2University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

 

190 From genetic disposition to academic achievement: The mediating role of non-cognitive skills across development (S)

Quan Zhou1, Wangjingyi Liao1, Andrea Allegrini2, Kaili Rimfeld3, Jasmin Wertz4, Tim Morris2, Laurel Raffington5, Robert Plomin6, Margherita Malanchini1

1Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom. 2University College London, London, United Kingdom. 3Royal Holloway University of London, London, United Kingdom. 4The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. 5Max Planck Center for Human Development, Berlin, Germany. 6King's College London, London, United Kingdom

 

204 The intergenerational transmission of educational inequality: An adoption study

Matt McGue1,2, Emily Willoughby3, Tobias Edwards3, Robert Krueger1, Glenn Roisman3, Aldo Rustichini3, Scott Vrieze3, James J Lee3

1Minneapolis, Minneapolis, USA. 2University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark. 3University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA



Public Understanding and Communication of Genetic Research

11:00 - 12:30 Thursday, 26th June, 2025

Location White Hall 207

 

36 The impact of trust in scientists for the support of polygenic scores for social traits among the public and biobank participants (P)

Margaret Waltz1, Anneliese Long1, Matthew Kucmanic2, Nader Mehri1, R. Jean Cadigan1

1University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA. 2University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA

 

47 Who is Willing to Participate in Behavior Genetic Research? Exploring Barriers and Predictors (I, P, V)

Shannon O'Connor1, S. Mason Garrison2

1University of Toledo, Toledo, USA. 2Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, USA

 

78 Contextual Effects in Reducing Genetic Essentialism through Genetics Education (P, S)

Yeongmi Jeong1, Kathryn Malerbi2, Monica Weindling3, Andrew Brubaker3, Brian Donovan3, Robbee Wedow1,4

1Department of Sociology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. 2Department of Public Health, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. 3Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA. 4Department of Medical & Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA

 

82 “Positive Research,” “Playing God,” and Everything in Between: Biobank Participants’ Views on Polygenic Scores for Social/Behavioral Traits (P, V)

Lia EB Kaz1, Sara Watson2, Karen M Meagher2, Kristine J. Kuczynski1, R. Jean Cadigan1

1Department of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. 2Biomedical Ethics Research Program, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

 

110 How confused theories of free will drive misplaced fears of genetic causation in the behavioral sciences. (P, S)

Damien Morris

Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

 

142 Developing and Teaching Curriculum to Reduce Genetic Essentialism in College Classrooms (P, S)

Kathryn Malerbi1, Andrew Brubaker2, Monica Weindling2, Brian Donovan2, Robbee Wedow1,3

1Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA. 2University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA. 3Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, USA



Methodological Advances in Genetic Research

11:00 - 12:30 Thursday, 26th June, 2025

Location White Hall 208

 

39 Autoencoder-Driven Framework for Discovery of Disease-Associated Susceptibility Loci in Complex Diseases (S)

Saranya Arirangan, Matthew Tegtmeyer, Robbee Wedow

Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

 

83 Genomic-Relatedness Matching Expands Population Coverage, Improves Power and Reduces Bias in Genetic Association Analyses (I)

Jeffrey Swigert1, Tami Gjorgjieva2, Jonathan Jala1, Dan Benjamin1,3,4, Doc Edge5, David Cesarini6, Patrick Turley1,7

1Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA. 2Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA. 3Department of Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA. 4National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, USA. 5Department of Quantitative and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. 6Department of Economics, New York University, New York, USA. 7Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

 

96 Precisely Estimating and Defining Heritability with Two Novel Sibling-Based Estimators

Dylan Steinecke1,2,3, Jonathan Jala1, Daniel Benjamin4,5,6, Patrick Turley7,8

1Anderson School of Management, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA. 2Bioinformatics Interdepartmental Ph.D. Program, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA. 3Medical Informatics Home Area, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA. 4Anderson School of Management, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA. 5National Bureau of Economics Research, Cambridge, MA, USA. 6Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA. 7Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. 8Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

 

162 An updated pipeline for GWAS of ascertained family-based cohorts with Picopili

Raymond Walters

Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA. Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, USA

 

169 Investigating Across-Chromosome Phasing without Close Relative Data (S)

emmanuel sapin, Kristen Kelly, Matt Keller

Institute for Behavioral Genetics, Colorado University., Boulder, USA

 

193 Simulation-Based Power Analysis for the Discordant-Sibling Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Model (DS RI-CLPM)

Yongseok Lee1, Amy Loviska1, Robert Duncan2, Kristine Marceau1

1Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA. 2Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA



Lunch

12:30 - 14:00 Thursday, 26th June, 2025



Depression and Mental Health

14:00 - 15:30 Thursday, 26th June, 2025

Location White Hall 206

 

16 Physical Activity and Depression: A Multicohort Sibling and Twin Study

Eetu Soini1, Marius Lahti-Pulkkinen1, Sari Aaltonen2, Kaisla Komulainen1, Jaakko Kaprio2, Markus Jokela1

1University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. 2Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), Helsinki, Finland

 

26 Investigating the Relationship Between Depression Symptoms, Sleep, and Eating Behaviors: A Phenotypic and Genetic Analysis of UK Biobank Data (S, V)

Emerie Sheridan, Cathryn Lewis, Oliver Pain, Moritz Herle

King's College London, London, United Kingdom

 

37 Estimating the contribution of large-scale environmental and genetic influences on depression symptoms in a nationally-representative longitudinal cohort

Katherine Thompson1, Baptiste Couvy-Duchesne2,3, Rafael Geurgas1, S. Hong Lee4,5,6, Saul Newman7, Laura Sheppard7, Robbee Wedow1,8, Felix Tropf1,7

1Department of Sociology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA. 2Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia. 3Sorbonne University, Paris Brain Institute, Paris, France. 4Australian Centre for Precision Health, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia. 5UniSA Allied Health and Human Performance, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia. 6South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, Australia. 7Centre for Longitudinal Studies, University College London, London, United Kingdom. 8Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, USA

 

52 Deep Learning Techniques for Detecting Depression Using Polygenic Risk Scores and Environmental Factors

Rafael Geurgas1, Katherine Thompson11, Saul Newman2, Robbee Wedow1, Felix Tropf1,2

1Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA. 2University College London, London, United Kingdom

 

71 Investigating gene-environment interplay using polygenic scores: Estimation of parental effects on major depressive symptoms in the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study. (P)

Noemie Valenza-Troubat1, Dinka Smajlagic1,2, Kristen Kelly1, Xuanyu Lyu1, Emmanuel Sapin1, Adrian Dahl Askelund2,3, Alexandra Karoline Saasen Havdahl2,4,5, Matthew C Keller1

1Institute for Behavioral Genetics, Colorado University, Boulder, USA. 2PsychGen Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Mental Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway. 3Psychiatric Genetic Epidemiology Group, Research Department, Lovisenberg Diaconal Hospital, Oslo, Norway. 4Nic Waals Institute, Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital, Oslo, Norway. 5Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

 

133 Measuring Genetic Liability of Major Depressive Disorder and Its Comorbidity with Alcohol Use Disorder Using Singular and Joint Genome-Wide Polygenic Scores (I, S)

Jonathan Wells1,2, Brion Maher3, Jill Rabinowitz4, Amanda Gentry2, James Burch1, Elizabeth Prom-Wormley1,2

1Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Public Health, Richmond, USA. 2Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Richmond, USA. 3Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA. 4Rutgers University, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Bruinswick, USA



Assortative Mating and Population Genetics

14:00 - 15:30 Thursday, 26th June, 2025

Location White Hall 207

 

44 Combining genetic and phenotypic data in extended families to investigate indirect assortative mating and gene-environment correlations

Hans Fredrik Sunde1, Espen Moen Eilertsen2, Fartein Ask Torvik1,2

1Centre for Fertility and Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway. 2PROMENTA Research Centre, Department of Psychology, Univsersity of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

 

93 Using Offspring to Estimate Trajectories of Assortative Mating

Matthew Howell1, Rosie Li2, Michael Bennett2, Grant Goldman3, Jonathan Jala1, Daniel Benjamin1,4,5, Miles Kimball5,6,7,8, Patrick Turley8,9

1Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA. 2Department of Economics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. 3Department of Bioinformatics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA. 4Department of Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA. 5National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. 6Department of Economics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA. 7Institute of Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA. 8Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA. 9Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

 

101 Measurement, causes, and consequences of genetic selection across birth cohorts in the UKBiobank (V)

Felix Tropf1, Abdel Abdellaoui2, Robbee Wedow1

1Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA. 2University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

 

183 The relation between dizygotic twinning and female fertility (S, V)

Nikki Hubers1,2, Christian Page3,4, René Pool1, Hamdi Mbarek5, Nils Lambalk2, Velja Mijatovic2, Lannie Ligthart1, Jenny van Dongen1,2, Erik Ehli6, Nick Martin7, Gonneke Willemsen8, Siri Håberg9, Jennifer Harris3, Jouke-Jan Hottenga5, Dorret Boomsma1,2

1Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2Amsterdam Reproduction and Development, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 3Centre for Fertility and Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway. 4Department of Physical Health and Aging, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway. 5Qatar Genome Program, Qatar Foundation Research, Development and Innovation, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar. 6Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center, Sioux Falls, USA. 7QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia. 8Faculty of Health, Sports and Social Work, Inholland University of Applied Sciences, Haarlem, Netherlands. 9Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

 

194 Genetic Ancestry-Based Assortative Mating within the U.S. Black and Hispanic Populations (I)

Luyin Zhang, Sam Trejo, Dalton Conley

Princeton University, Princeton, USA

 

64 Life without sex: Large-scale study links sexlessness to physical, cognitive, and personality traits, socioecological factors, and DNA (V)

Abdel Abdellaoui1, Laura Wesselijk1,2, Scott Gordon3, Joëlle Pasman1, Dirk Smit1, Renáta Androvičová11, Nicholas Martin3, Fredrik Ullén2, Miriam Mosing2, Brendan Zietsch4, Karin Verweij1

1Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2Department of Cognitive Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany, Frankfurt, Germany. 3QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia. 4University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia



Genetic and Environmental Effects and Interactions

14:00 - 15:30 Thursday, 26th June, 2025

Location White Hall 208

 

32 Food for Thought:  Grocery Store Quality Matters in Accessing Healthy Food Options for Better Health Outcomes (I, S)

Ryan Bruellman1, Robin Corely2, Sally Wadsworth2, Ilana Bennett1, Chandra Reynolds2,1

1University of California Riverside, Riverside, USA. 2University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA

 

99 The effect of sexual violence victimization on later physical health: A discordant sibling and twin design (I, V)

Stephanie Zellers1, Rebecca Lawn2, Audrey Murchland3, Antti Latvala4, Jaakko Kaprio1, Karestan Koenan5

1Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. 2Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. 3School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, USA. 4- Institute of Criminology and Legal Policy, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. 5T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard, Cambridge, USA

 

167 Gene-Environment Interplay in Adolescent Depressive Symptom Trajectories: Neighborhood Context and Polygenic risk for Major Depressive Disorder. (I, S, V)

Belal Jamil1, Jinni Su1, Kathryn Lemery-Chalfant1, Kit Elam2, Kevin Grimm1, Rick Cruz1, Eleanor Seaton3

1Arizona State University, Tempe, USA. 2Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. 3University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA

 

184 The Economics and Econometrics of Gene–Environment Interplay

Titus Galama1, Pietro Biroli2, Stephanie von Hinke3, Hans van Kippersluis4, Niels Rietveld4, Kevin Thom5

1University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. 2University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy. 3University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom. 4Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands. 5University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA

 

198 Tracking Causality in the Effect of Air Pollution on Life Satisfaction (S, V)

Dmitry Kuznetsov1,2, Moana Beyer1,3, Simone Kühn1,4

1Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for Environmental Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany. 2Bielefeld University, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld, Germany. 3Humbold University of Berlin, Department of Psychology, Berlin, Germany. 4University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Hamburg, Germany

 

74 The Role of Higher-Order Interactions in Missing Heritability (S)

Kiana Jodeiry1,2, Andrew Bass3,2, Michael Epstein1,2, David Cutler1,2

1Emory University, Atlanta, USA. 2Center of Computational and Quantitative Genetics, Atlanta, USA. 3University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom



Coffee Break + Poster Setup

15:30 - 16:00 Thursday, 26th June, 2025

Location White Hall Lower Lobby



Special Symposium: Twin and Family Studies in the 21st Century: A Collaborative Vision

16:00 - 17:00 Thursday, 26th June, 2025

Location White Hall 208

 

6 Twin and Family Studies in the 21st Century: A Collaborative Vision

Chair

Matthew Keller

Institute for Behavioral Genetics, Boulder, USA

Discussants: Scott Vrieze, Meike Bartels, Elizabeth Prom-Wormley, Sarah Medland, Tom McAdams, Michel Nivard, Hermine Maes

15 Painting the potential of global collaboration

Meike Bartels1, Matt Keller2, Christopher Beam3, Elizabeth Prom-Wormley4, Scott Vrieze5, Sarah Medland6, Tom McAdams7, Ben Neale8, Michel Nivard9, Hermine Maes10

1Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2Institute for Behavioral Genetics, Boulder, USA. 3University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. 4Virginia Commonwealth University-School of Medicine, Richmond, USA. 5University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA. 6QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia. 7Kings's College, London, United Kingdom. 8Broad Institute, Boston, USA. 9University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom. 10Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Richmond, USA

 

181 An International Biobank of Twins and Families Will Require Aggregating Common Enough Phenotypes Across Studies

Christopher Beam1, Matthew Keller2, Scott Vrieze3, Meike Bartels4, Elizabeth Prom-Wormley5, Sarah Medland6, Tom McAdams7, Benjamin Neale8, Michel Nivard4, Hermine Maes5

1University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. 2University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, USA. 3University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA. 4Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 5Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA. 6QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia. 7King's College London, London, United Kingdom. 8Broad Institute, Cambridge, USA



Poster Session and Reception

17:30 - 19:30 Thursday, 26th June, 2025

Location MCS Atrium



Friday 27th, June, 2025 (Day 3)

Plenary Session: David Cutler

09:00 - 10:00 Friday, 27th June, 2025

Location White Hall 208

The role of the X-chromosome in male-female disease prevalence differences

Coffee Break

10:00 - 10:30 Friday, 27th June, 2025

Location White Hall Lower Lobby



Substance Use and Addiction

10:30 - 12:00 Friday, 27th June, 2025

Location White Hall 206

 

67 Genome-wide association study (GWAS) of opioid overdose death

Alexander Hatoum, Emma Johnson, Jodi Kutzner, Arpana Agrawal, Elliot Nelson

Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, USA

 

173 Analysis of Transmissible Liability Index in longitudinal twin datasets for studying resistance to substance use

Hermine HM Maes1, Michael Vanyukov2, William Iacono3, Levent Kirisci2, Diana Samek4, Emily Zimmerman1, Elizabeth Prom-Wormley1

1Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA. 2University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA. 3University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA. 4Auburn University, Auburn, USA

 

187 Examining the Relationship between Music Engagement and Substance Use in College Students (S)

Jordan Chow1, Daniel Gustavson2, Spit for Science Working Group3, Hermine Maes3

1Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA. 2University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA. 3Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics,Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA

 

199 GWAS on lifetime cannabis use and use frequency in 501,138 European and 122,224 other ancestry individuals shows associations with psychiatric traits (I, V)

Joëlle Pasman1, Zachary Gerring2,3, Jackson Thorp2, Abdel Abdellaoui1, Pierre Youssef2, Muhannad Smadi1, Jorien Treur1, Jacqueline Vink4, Nathan Gillespie5, Eske Derks2, Karin Verweij1

1Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Translational Neurogenomics Laboratory, Brisbane, Australia. 3Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Healthy Development and Ageing, Melbourne, Australia. 4Radboud University, Behavioural Science Institute, Nijmegen, Netherlands. 5Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Richmond, USA

 

165 Alcohol and Tobacco Use Polygenic Score Transferability: The Role of Causal Effect Size Similarity Across Ancestries

Gretchen Saunders

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

 

18 Music Engagement in Adolescence is Associated with Less Alcohol Consumption: A Gene-by-Environment Investigation

Daniel Gustavson1, Reyna Gordon2, Miriam Lense2, Naomi Friedman1, Sally Wadsworth1, Chandra Reynolds1, Hermine Maes3

1University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA. 2Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, USA. 3Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA



Personality and Psychopathology

10:30 - 12:00 Friday, 27th June, 2025

Location White Hall 207

 

43 Distressing psychotic-like experiences among children and associations with genetic risk, prenatal cannabis exposure, and social-environmental characteristics (I, P)

Benson Ku, Emerald Yuan, Yinxian Chen, Ying Xu, Lina Dimitrov, Benjamin Risk, Anke Huels

Emory, Atlanta, USA


191 (WITHDRAWN) Investigating the Genetics of Impulsivity and its relation to Neurodevelopmental Disorders using Genomic Structural Equation Modelling

 

97 Genetic and environmental components of personality disorder variance in a time-censored total population

Mathias Valstad1, Nikolai Eftedal1, Tianfang Yang1, Ted Reichborn-Kjennerud2, Eivind Ystrøm1,2,3, Nikolai Olavi Czajkowski1,2

1PROMENTA Research Centre, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. 2PsychGen Centre for Genetic Epidemiology and Mental Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway. 3Centre for Research on Equality in Education, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

 

98 Narcissism Runs in Families due to Genetics: An Extended Twin Family Analysis

Christian Kandler1,2, Marco Deppe2, Theresa Rohm2, Mitja Back3

1Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany. 2University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany. 3University of Münster, Münster, Germany

 

109 Perception of Internalizing symptoms among mothers and adolescent twins  in a rural town in Southwestern Nigeria (I, P, S, V)

Kehinde Ayodele1, Ayomide Oluseye2, Helena Zavos3, Olakunle Oginni4

1Department of Psychology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. 2Department of Health, wellbeing and Social Care, The Open University, United Kingdom, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom. 3Social, Genetics and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College, UK, London, United Kingdom. 4Wolfson Centre for Young People's Mental Health, Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neuroscience, Cardiff University, UK, Cardiff, United Kingdom

 

54 Quantifying environmental confounding in personality genomics (V)

Ted Schwaba, on behalf of the Revived Genomics of Personality Consortium1, Margaret L. Clapp Sullivan2, Abdel Abdellaoui3, Michel G. Nivard4, Elliot M. Tucker-Drob2

1Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA. 2University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA. 3University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 4University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom



Child Development and Parenting

10:30 - 12:00 Friday, 27th June, 2025

Location White Hall 208

 

117 Genetic and Environmental Contributions to the Association Between Resilient Parenting and Youth Resilience Development from Middle Childhood to Adolescence (I)

Elizabeth Shewark1, Alexandra Vazquez2, Sarah Carroll2, Laura Miller-Graff1, Amy Nuttall2, Luke Hyde3, Kelly Klump2, Alexandra Burt2

1University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA. 2Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA. 3University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

 

121 Gene-Environment Interaction in Child Temperament Profiles from Early to Middle Childhood: A Longitudinal Adoption Study (P, S)

Daiqing Zhao1, Jody Ganiban2, Daniel Shaw3, David Reiss4, Misaki Natsuaki5, Leslie Leve6, Jenae Neiderhiser1

1Penn State University, State College, USA. 2George Washington University, Washington DC, USA. 3University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA. 4Yale University, New Haven, USA. 5University of California, Riverside, Riverside, USA. 6University of Oregon, Eugene, USA

 

146 Examining gene by prenatal environment moderation on maternal allostatic load and child attention.

Amanda Ramos1, Leslie Leve2, Misaki Natsuaki3, Daniel Shaw4, Jody Ganiban5, Jenae Neiderhiser6

1Utah State University, Logan, USA. 2University of Oregon, Eugene, USA. 3University of California, Riverside, Riverside, USA. 4University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA. 5George Washington University, Washington DC, USA. 6The Pennsylvania State University, College Park, USA

 

160 Examining Genetic and Parenting Effects on Child Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms: A Test of Comorbidity and Directionality

Danielle M. Seay1, Miglena Y. Ivanova1,2, Kristine Marceau3, Jody M. Ganiban4, Daniel S. Shaw5, Misaki N. Natsuaki6, Leslie D. Leve7, Jenae M. Neiderhiser1

1Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA. 2Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA. 3Department of Human Development and Family Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA. 4Departments of Clinical and Developmental Psychology, George Washington University, District of Columbia, USA. 5Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA. 6Department of Psychology, The University of California, Riverside, Riverside, USA. 7Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA

 

203 The Role of Early-Life Caregiver Factors on the Heritability of Childhood Health and Development Indicators: Insights from a Twin Study

Samantha Miadich1, Leah Doane2, Mary Davis2, Kathryn Lemery-Chalfant2

1University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, USA. 2Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

 

159 Temperament Types Uncover Shared Environmental Risk for Child Psychopathology

Alexys Murillo, Mary C. Davis, Leah D. Doane, Kathryn Lemery-Chalfant

Arizona State University, TEMPE, USA



Lunch

12:00 - 13:30 Friday, 27th June, 2025

Location SC Dining Hall



Puberty and Risk for Psychopathology: Insights from Genetically-Informed Designs

13:30 - 15:00 Friday, 27th June, 2025

Location White Hall 206

 

13 Puberty and Risk for Psychopathology: Insights from Genetically-Informed Designs

Chair

Megan Patterson

University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA

Discussant

Kathryn Paige Harden

University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

73 Unraveling Disordered Eating in Males: Differences in Genetic Influences on Binge Eating, Body Dissatisfaction, and Weight Preoccupation during Puberty

Kristen Culbert1, Alaina Di Dio2,3, D. Angus Clark4, S. Alexandra Burt1, Kelly Klump1

1Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA. 2Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA. 3Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA. 4Leidos, Inc, Reston, USA

 

79 Does puberty mediate genetic and environmental influences on emotional difficulties at age 15?  Evidence from an adopted-at-birth design

Kristine Marceau1, Olivia C Robertson2, Birdie Shirtcliff3, Misaki Natsuaki4, Daniel S Shaw5, Leslie D Leve3, Jody M Ganiban6, Jenae M Neiderhiser7

1Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA. 2Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. 3University of Oregon, Eugene, USA. 4University of California, Riverside, Riverside, USA. 5University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA. 6George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA. 7Penn State University, State College, USA

 

81 Heterogeneous genetic associations between psychiatric traits, puberty-related traits, and sex hormones

Megan W Patterson1, Naomi P Friedman2, Matthew C Keller2, Andrew D Grotzinger2

1University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, USA. 2University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA

 

85 Subjective Pubertal Timing Differentially Moderates Genetic Influences on Subtypes of Antisocial Behavior in Girls (S)

Alaina M. Di Dio1,2, D. Angus Clark3, S. Alexandra Burt4, Kristen M. Culbert4, Kelly L. Klump4

1Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA. 2Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA. 3Leidos Incorporated, Reston, USA. 4Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA



Exploring Major Depression’s heterogeneity across levels of phenotypic presentation and biological analysis

13:30 - 15:00 Friday, 27th June, 2025

Location White Hall 207

 

9 Exploring Major Depression’s heterogeneity across levels of phenotypic presentation and biological analysis

Chair

Jeremy Lawrence

CU Boulder, Boulder, USA

Discussant

Daniel Levey

Yale, New Haven, USA

69 Differential methylation analysis of Major Depressive Disorder in 17,601 individuals from the Million Veteran Program (P)

Priya Gupta1,2, Daniel Levey1,2

1Human Genetics Div. of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, USA. 2VA Connecticut Healthcare Centre, West Haven, USA

 

30 Multi-ancestry GWAS meta-analysis of depressive symptom scores

Sam Bentwood1, Mark J. Adams1, Heather C. Whalley1, Rona J. Strawbridge2, Yi Lu3, Andrew M. McIntosh1, Alex S. F. Kwong1

1Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. 2School of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom. 3Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

 

127 Kind at heart: Multivariable G-E interplay in the prediction of prosocial behavior (P, S)

Razieh Chegeni1, Ragnhild Bang Nes2, Eivind Ystrøm1, Rosa Cheesman3, Ziada Ayorech3, Espen Eilersten3, Espen Røysamb3

1University of Oslo, oslo, Norway. 2university of oslo, oslo, Norway. 3University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

 

147 Genetic Signal Augmentation of Child-Onset and Severe Major Depression Reveals Distinct Biological Subtypes (S)

Jeremy Lawrence, Sophie Breunig, Lukas Schaffer, Isabelle Foote, Katerina Zorina-Lichtenwalter, Andrew Grotzinger

CU Boulder, Boulder, USA



Advances in Developmental Behavioral Genetics: Gene-Environment Covariance, Phenotypic Causation, and Multivariate Models Across the Lifespan

13:30 - 15:00 Friday, 27th June, 2025

Location White Hall 208

 

7 Advances in Developmental Behavioral Genetics: Gene-Environment Covariance, Phenotypic Causation, and Multivariate Models Across the Lifespan

Chair

Michael Neale

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

Discussant

Christopher Beam

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

42 Novel Genetically Informative Cross-Lagged Panel Models Examining the Shared Etiology and Causation between Depression, Anxiety, and Substance Use in Young Adults (S, V)

Madhurbain Singh1,2, Elham Assary2, Michael Hunter3, Brad Verhulst4, Roseann Peterson5,1, Hermine Maes1, Conor Dolan6, Thalia Eley2, Michael Neale1,6

1Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA. 2King’s College London, London, United Kingdom. 3Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA. 4Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. 5SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, NY, USA. 6Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

 

112 Visual-spatial performance and change at the cusp of midlife: Education and polygenic contributions

Chandra Reynolds1,2, Daniel Gustavson1,2, Naomi Friedman1,2, Shandell Pahlen1, Robin Corley1, Matthew Keller1,2, Sally Wadsworth1

1Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. 2Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

 

174 Modeling Multivariate Niche Selection in Longitudinal Twin Data

Michael Neale1, Madhur Singh1, Brad Verhulst2, Hermine Maes1, Philip Vinh1, Conor Dolan3

1Virginia Commonwealth University, RIchmond, USA. 2Texas A&M, Houston, USA. 3Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

 

172 Genetic and Environment Influences on Music Engagement Across Childhood and Adolescence

Hermine HM Maes1, Naomi Friedman2, Robin Corley2, Sally Wadsworth2, Chandra Reynolds2, Daniel Gustavson2

1Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA. 2University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, USA



Coffee Break

15:00 – 15:30 Friday, 27th June, 2025

Location White Hall Lower Lobby



Externalizing Behaviors and Antisocial Traits

15:30 - 17:00 Friday, 27th June, 2025

Location White Hall 206

 

14 The time-varying role of peer delinquency in the etiology of rule-breaking trajectories (S)

Sarah Carroll1, Elizabeth Shewark2, Luke Hyde3, Kelly Klump1, S. Alexandra Burt1

1Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA. 2University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA. 3University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

 

20 Multi-Ancestry Genome-Wide Association Study of the Externalizing Spectrum in ~4 Million People Identifies Novel Variants Associated with Substance Use Disorders and Antisocial Behavior (I)

Camille Williams1, Holly Poore2, Diego Londono-Correa3, Yuchen Ning4, Natasia Courchesne-Krak5, Maia Choi2, Peter Tanksley6, et al.7, Abraham Palmer5, Peter Barr8, Sandra Sanchez-Roige5, Richard Karlsson Linnér9, Danielle Dick2, K. Paige Harden3, Travis Mallard10

1Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistiques, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France. 2Department of Psychiatry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA. 3Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA. 4Department of Economics, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 5Department of Psychiatry, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA. 6ALERRT Center, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, USA. 7See acknowledgements, Multiple locations, USA. 8Department of Psychiatry, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, New York, USA. 9Department of Economics, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands. 10Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

 

107 Downstream Effects of Externalizing Genetic Risks on Adolescent Psychosocial Environments: A Twin-And-Sibling-Based Analysis (I, S)

LiChen Dong, James Li

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA

 

124 Gene-by-environment interaction of polygenic risk score and early adversity dimensions on externalizing behaviors in US adolescents aged 12-13 (I, S)

Li Yu1, Kristine Marceau1, Valerie Knopik1, Leigha MacNeill1, Sarah Karalunas2

1Department of Human Development and Family Science, Purdue University, WEST LAFAYETTE, USA. 2Department of Psychological Sciences, WEST LAFAYETTE, USA

 

161 The Role of the Home Environment in Moderating the Genetic and Environmental Influences on Antisocial and Prosocial Behavior during Adolescence (P, S)

Maria Balaceanu1, Elizabeth Shewark2, Jenae Neiderhiser3, Amanda Ramos1

1Utah State University, Logan, USA. 2University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA. 3The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

 

205 Exploring the genetic architecture of externalizing outcomes using Genomic SEM with PGS (V)

Ivan Voronin1, Isabelle Ouellet-Morin2, Michel Boivin1

1Université Laval, Québec, Canada. 2Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada



Early Development and Well-being

15:30- 17:00 Friday, 27th June, 2025

Location White Hall 207

 

46 Genome-wide association studies of infant temperament and links to later life outcomes (V)

Angelica Ronald1, Anja Hollowell1, Anna Gui2, Morgan Morgan1, Emilie Wigdor3, Stephan Sanders3, Meike Bartels4, Frank Dudbridge5, Mark Johnson6, Dorret Boomsma4, Tomoki Arichi7, Susanne Bruins4, Laurie Hannigan8, Elizabeth Corfield8, Alexandra Havdahl8

1University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom. 2University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom. 3University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. 4VU University, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 5University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom. 6Birkbeck, London, United Kingdom. 7King's College London, London, United Kingdom. 8University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

 

130 Associations between child and parent psychopathology in a rural setting in Nigeria: Preliminary findings from a pilot study (I, V)

Olakunle Oginni1, Olusola Jeje2, Olatokunbo Guns2, Oluwatosin Olorunmoteni2, Ruth Gilbert3, Thalia Eley4, Daniel Stein5, Boladale Mapayi2, Frühling Rijsdijk4,6, Anita Thapar1

1Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom. 2Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. 3University College London, London, United Kingdom. 4King's College London, London, United Kingdom. 5University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. 6Anton de Kom University, Paramaribo, Suriname

 

153 Effects of personality traits on Income and Wealth: Evidence from polygenic indices. (V)

Sjoerd van Alten1, Leandro Carvalho2, Silva Barcellos3, Titus Galama2,1

1Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. 3University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA

 

175 Social mismatch and affective wellbeing: a genetically-informative Ecological Momentary Assessment study (V)

Lianne de Vries1,2, Meike Bartels1,2

11. Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 22. Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam University Medical Centres, Amsterdam, Netherlands

 

180 Using triangulation to explore associations between phenotype-genotype concordance, wellbeing, and epigenetic clocks (V)

Anne Geijsen1,2, Dirk Pelt1,2, Jenny van Dongen1,2, Meike Bartels1,2

1Department of Biological Psychology, Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands

 

197 Prosocial behavior and the genomic p-factor in the Twins Early Development Study (TEDS): the transdiagnostic potential of prosociality (V)

Sophie Sansum, Robert Plomin

King's College London, London, United Kingdom



Genetic Risk Scores and Prediction

15:30 - 17:00 Friday, 27th June, 2025

Location White Hall 208

 

7 Polygenic scores for schizophrenia and educational attainment predict real-world global functioning across psychiatric hospitalization: A longitudinal, register-based analysis of adults with schizophrenia

Evan Giangrande1,2,3,4, Anders Kämpe5,6, Jaana Suvisaari7, Markku Lähteenvuo5,8, Emilia Vartiainen5, Olli Pietiläinen9,1, Aarno Palotie5,1, Jordan Smoller10,1, Benjamin Neale1,2

1Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA. 2Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. 3Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Boston, MA, USA. 4Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA. 5Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. 6Department of Molecular Medicine and surgery (MMK), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. 7National Institute for Health and Welfare, Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, Helsinki, Finland. 8Department of Forensic Psychiatry, University of Eastern Finland School of Medicine, Niuvanniemi Hospital, Kuopio, Finland. 9Neuroscience Center, Helsinki Institute of Life Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. 10Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

 

68 Bootstrap Twin Cross-Validation of a Prediction Index for Cognitive Decline (S)

Sophie A. Bell1, Christopher R. Beam2, Alyssa C. Kam2, Ebrahim Zandi2, Deborah W. Davis3,4, Deborah Finkel2,5, Eric Turkheimer1

1University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA. 2University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. 3Norton Children's Research Institute, Louisville, USA. 4University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, USA. 5Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden

 

88 Multi-Ancestry Fine-Mapping Identifies Bipolar Disorder Risk Genes and Enhances Polygenic Risk Score Transferability

Maria Koromina1,2,3, Kevin S. O’Connell4,5, Friederike David6,7, Kai Yuan8,9,10, Biao Zeng2,3,11,12, Gabriel Hoffman2,3,11,12,13,14, Panos Roussos2,3,11,12,13,14, Niamh Mullins1,2,3

1Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, USA. 2Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, USA. 3Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, USA. 4Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway. 5Center for Precision Psychiatry, Oslo, Norway. 6Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, School of Medicine and University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany. 7Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Marburg, Marburg, Marburg, Germany. 8Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA. 9Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, USA. 10Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. 11Center for Disease Neurogenomics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, USA. 12Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, USA. 13Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center VISN2, James J. Peters VA Medical Center, New York City, USA. 14Center for Precision Medicine and Translational Therapeutics, James J. Peters VA Medical Center, New York City, USA

 

113 Examining the relative predictive accuracy of polygenic indexes (PGIs) across genetically-inferred ancestry (I)

Robel Alemu1,2, Aysu Okbay3, Alexander Young1, Daniel Benjamin1, Patrick Turley4

1University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA. 2Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, USA. 3Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 4University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

 

122 From Twins to Digital Twins: LLM-Driven Longitudinal Prediction across Cognitive Performance, Personality, Health, and Wellbeing

Anqing Zheng1, Daniel Gustavson1,2, Robin Corley1, Chandra Reynolds1,2,3

1Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA. 2Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA. 3Department of Psychology, The University of California, Riverside, Riverside, USA

 

185 Investigating generality and specificity in the association between genetic risk for psychopathology and cognitive development (S, V)

Wangjingyi Liao1, Engin Keser2, Andrea Allegrini3, Kaili Rimfeld4, Robert Plomin2, Margherita Malanchini1

1Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom, 2King's College London, London, United Kingdom, 3University College London, London, United Kingdom. 4Royal Holloway University of London, London, United Kingdom.


Strategies to Navigate Your Career Development for Success Today and Beyond

17:30 - 19:00 Friday, 27th June, 2025

Location White Hall 208



Saturday 28th, June, 2025 (Day 4)

Plenary: Dobzhansky Lecture by Eric Turkheimer

09:00 - 10:00 Saturday, 28th June, 2025

Location White Hall 208

 

35 Theodosius Dobzhansky and The Origins of Radical Behavior Genetics

Eric Turkheimer

Charlottesville, Charlottesville, USA



Coffee Break

10:00 - 10:30 Saturday, 28th June, 2025

Location White Hall Lower Lobby



Sleep, Aging, and Cognitive Decline

10:30 - 12:00 Saturday, 28th June, 2025

Location White Hall 206

 

25 Within and Between Twin Pair Differences Indicate Genetic Effects of Education on Longitudinal Changes in Cognitive Aging

Deborah Finkel1,2, Malin Ericsson3, Vibeke Catts4, Ida Karlsson3, Miriam Mosing3, Marianne Nygaard5, Chandra Reynolds6, Perminder Sachdev4, Anbu Thalamuthu4, Margaret Gatz1, Brian Finch1

1University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. 2Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden. 3Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. 4University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. 5Southern Denmark University, Odense, Denmark. 6University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

 

33 Epigenetic Aging and Personality Differences: Latent Change Analyses of Twin Data (S)

Jana Instinske1, Alicia M. Schowe2,3, Darina Czamara2, Dmitry V. Kuznetsov4,5, Bastian Moenkediek4, Christian Kandler1,6

1Department of Psychology, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany. 2Department Genes and Environment, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany. 3Graduate School of Systemic Neuroscience, Ludwig-Maximilian’s University, Munich, Germany. 4Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany. 5Center for Environmental Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany. 6Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

 

105 Genetic and Environmental Associations of Subjective Memory Decline with Objective Memory Decline and Alzheimer’s Related Brain Signature (V)

Tyler Bell1, Daniel Gustavson2, Carol Franz1, Matthew Panizzon1, Christine Fennema-Notestine1, Jeremy Elman1, Rosemary Toomey3, Nathan Gillespie4, Chandra Reynolds2, Michael Neale4, Amy Jak1, Diane Jacobs1, Anders Dale1, Rongxiang Tang5, William Kremen1

1University of California San Diego, La Jolla, USA. 2Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA. 3Boston University, Boston, USA. 4Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth, Richmond, USA. 5Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

 

148 Birth and Adoptive Parent Influences on Adolescent Sleep

Lijun Li1, Tong Chen2, Jody Ganiban3, Misaki Natsuaki4, Daniel Shaw5, David Reiss6, Leslie Leve7, Jenae Neiderhiser1

1Pennsylvania State University, State College, USA. 2University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA. 3George Washington University, Washington DC, USA. 4University of California, Riverside, Riverside, USA. 5University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA. 6Yale University, New Haven, USA. 7University of Oregon, Eugene, USA

 

164 Shared genetic architecture between disrupted sleep and PTSD subdomains

Chelsie Benca-Bachman1, Rameez Syed2, Rohan Palmer2

1Brown University, Providence, USA. 2Emory University, Atlanta, USA

 

177 Negative Life Events and Epigenetic Ageing

Bodine Gonggrijp1,2, Steve van de Weijer1, Catrien Bijleveld1,3, Dorret Boomsma4, Jenny van Dongen2

1Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR),, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), Department Biological Psychology, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 3University of Liverpool, Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, Liverpool, United Kingdom. 4Complex Trait Genetics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit,, Amsterdam, Netherlands



Genetics of Specific Health Conditions

10:30 - 12:00 Saturday, 28th June, 2025

Location White Hall 207

 

59 Genetic and Environmental Associations Between Processing Speed and Executive Functions across Adolescence and Established Adulthood. (S)

Mohini Karhadkar1,2, Naomi Friedman1,2, Robin Corley1, Chandra Reynolds1,2, Daniel Gustavson1,2

1Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA. 2Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA

 

87 Pleiotropic Loci Underlying Addictive Behaviors and Body Mass Index: Evidence from Large Genome-Wide Association Studies (S, V)

Baiyu Qi1, Heather Highland1, Mariaelisa Graff1, Kristin Young1, Cynthia Bulik2,3,4, Sonja Berndt5, Josh Arias5, Eating Disorders Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium6, GIANT Consortium7, Melissa Munn-Chernoff8, Kari North1

1Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA. 2Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA. 3Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. 4Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,, Chapel Hill, USA. 5Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA. 6Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, Chapel Hill, USA. 7GIANT Consortium, Cambridge, USA. 8Department of Community, Family, and Addiction Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA

 

150 Exogenous ovarian hormone exposure in female twins: Exploring genetic and environmental influences on binge eating risk

Kelly L. Klump1, Alaina M. Di Dio2,3, Kristen M. Culbert1, S. Alexandra Burt1, Pamela K. Keel4, Michael C. Neale5, Debra K. Katzman6, Cheryl L. Sisk1

1Michigan Staswite University, East Lansing, USA. 2University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA. 3Institute for Behavioral Genetics, Boulder, USA. 4Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA. 5Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA. 6The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

 

178 Genomic links between symptoms of eating disorders and suicidal ideation. (P, V)

Agnieszka Musial1,2, Una Foye1, Saakshi Kakar1, Tom Jewell1, Rina Dutta1, Ulrike Schmidt1, Gerome Breen1, Moritz Herle1

1KCL, London, United Kingdom. 2QMUL, London, United Kingdom



Methodological Considerations and Genetic Data Analysis

10:30 - 12:00 Saturday, 28th June, 2025

Location White Hall 208

 

94 Using statistical genetics to resolve disparate results: exploring genetic contributions to cerebellum morphology. (Presented on behalf of the ENIGMA GWAS working group).

Sarah Medland

QIMR, Brisbane, Australia

 

143 Low quality genotype data is not appropriate for family-based analyses

Mahdi Mir1, Tammy Tan2, Patrick Turley3,4, Daniel J. Benjamin1,2,5, Alexander Strudwick Young1,5

1UCLA Anderson School of Management, Los Angeles, USA. 2National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, USA. 3Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. 4Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. 5UCLA Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA

 

144 No evidence for heterogeneous effects in smoking-depressive symptoms associations across different smoking strata (V)

Margot van de Weijer1, Jorien Treur1, Stephen Burgess2

1Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

 

154 How the importance of family history and gender for receiving a depression diagnosis varies over GPs and geography (V)

Ziada Ayorech, Rosa Cheesman, Perline Demange, Mathias Valstad, Espen Eilertesen, Eivind Ystrom

University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

 

156 A Bayesian Framework for Zygosity Classification and Heritability Estimation Using Nationwide Registry Data

Nikolai Czajkowski1,2, Espen Eilertsen1, Mathias Valstad1, Nikolai Eftedal3, Eivind Ystrom1,4

1PROMENTA Research Center, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. 2Division for Public Health and Prevention, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway. 3PROMENTA Research Center, Department of Psychology, Oslo, Norway. 4The Division for Public Health and Prevention, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway

 

206 The DIY of Nordic Family-Twin Studies - A Mixed Methods Sequential Study of Emotion Socialization

Eivind Ystrom

University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway



Business Meeting and Lunch

12:00 - 12:30, Lunch, Saturday, 28th June, 2025
12:30 - 14:00, Business Meeting, Saturday, 28th June, 2025

Location SC Dining Hall



Symposium: The Immune System in the Genetic Architecture of Psychiatric Disorders and Comorbidities with Physical Traits

14:00 – 15:10 Saturday, 28th June, 2025

Location White Hall 206


 

12 The immune system in the genetic architecture of psychiatric disorders and comorbidities with physical traits

Chair

Sophie Breunig

University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, USA

Pamela Romero

Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA

Discussant

Renato Polimanti

Yale University, New Haven, USA

61 Immune Markers Mediate the Genetic Relationships between Immune Diseases and Psychiatric Disorders (S)

Sophie Breunig1, Younga Heather Lee2,3,4, Elizabeth Karlson5, Kristen Kelly1, Lukas Schaffer1, Jeremy Lawrence1, Andrew Grotzinger1

1University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, USA. 2Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA. 3Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. 4Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, USA. 5Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA

 

171 Dissecting the Role of the Human Leukocyte Antigen System in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Risk (I, V)

Alice Braun

Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité - Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany. 2The Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, USA

 

166 Multi-ancestry genome-wide study of chronic pain

Pamela Romero Villela1, Alexander Hatoum1, Simon Haroutounian2, Arpana Agrawal1, Emma Johnson1

1Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA. 2Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA

 

65 Immune-developmental processes contribute to schizophrenia risk: insights from a genetic overlap study with height (S)

Cato Romero1, Christiaan de Leeuw2, Marijn Schipper2, Bernardo Maciel2, Martijn van den Heuvel1,2, Rachel Brouwer2, August Smit3, Frank Koopmans3, Danielle Posthuma1,2, Sophie van der Sluis4

1Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, Section Complex Trait Genetics, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Medical Center, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2Department of Complex Trait Genetics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 3Department of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, VU University, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 4Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, Section Complex Trait Genetics, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands



Symposium: Gene-Environment Interplay with Culture and Diversity in Youth Functioning

14:00 – 15:10 Saturday, 28th June, 2025

Location White Hall 207

 

5 Gene-Environment Interplay with Culture and Diversity in Youth Functioning

Chair

Kit Elam

Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, USA

Discussant

Kathryn Lemery-Chalfant

Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

48 Genetic Risk and Sleep Issues in Early Adolescence: Does Neighborhood Quality Matter? (I)

Kit Elam1, Chung Jung Mun2,3, Rui Li4, Xuelei Xu1, Patrick Quinn1, Jinni Su5

1Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. 2Arizona State University, Phoenix, USA. 3Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA. 4Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, USA. 5Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

 

66 Associations between youth-reported familism and substance use in early adolescence: A cotwin control study (I)

Gianna Rea-Sandin1, Jonathan Schaefer2, Nathalie Dumornay3, Jaylen Santos3, Scott Vrieze4, Sylia Wilson3

1Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA. 2Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA. 3Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA. 4Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

 

114 Moderation of Genetic Risk for Psychopathology by Discrimination: A Sibling-Adoption Study (I)

Veronica Oro1, Jenae Neiderhiser2, Misaki Natsuaki3, Jody Ganiban4, Daniel Shaw5, Leslie Leve1

1University of Oregon, Eugene, USA. 2The Pennsylvania State University, College Park, USA. 3University of California- Riverside, Riverside, USA. 4George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA. 5University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

 

137 Integrating Genetically and Culturally Informed Approaches: Unpacking the “Environment” from a Cultural Lens in Behavior Genetics Research on Child (I, V)

Jinni Su1, Eleanor Seaton2, Kit Elam3, Belal Jamil1, José Causadias1, Rick Cruz1, Kathryn Lemery-Chalfant11

1Arizona State University, Tempe, USA. 2University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, USA. 3Indiana University, Bloomington, USA



Symposium: Advances in Genomic Methods Development

14:00 – 15:10 Saturday, 28th June, 2025

Location White Hall 208

 

10 Advances in Genomic Methods Development

Chair

Andrew Grotzinger

Institute for Behavior Genetics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

Discussant

Michael Hunter

Penn State College of Health and Human Development, University Park, USA

55 Advancements in Multivariate SEM-PGS Model: New Insights into Familial Resemblance (S)

Xuanyu Lyu, Tong Chen, Matthew C Keller

University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, USA

 

119 Genomic Network Analysis: A Multivariate Tool for Characterizing Trait-Specific Biology at Multiple Levels of Analysis

Andrew Grotzinger1,2, Zachary Gerring3,4, William Reay5, Eske Derks3,6, Jackson Thorp3,6

1Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA. 2Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA. 3Department of Brain and Mental Health, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia. 4Population Health and Immunity Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia. 5Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia. 6Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

 

41 Identifying Gene-Environment Interaction with Genome-wide Data

Brad Verhulst

Texas A&M University, College Station, USA



Coffee Break

15:10 - 15:30 Saturday, 28th June, 2025

Location White Hall Lower Lobby



Symposium: Disentangling Parental and Offspring Effects on Child Cognitive and Behavioral Development

15:30 – 16:40 Saturday, 28th June, 2025

Location White Hall 206

 

8 Disentangling Parental and Offspring Effects on Child Cognitive and Behavioral Development

Chair

Lukas Schaffer

Institute for Behavioral Genetics, Boulder, CO, USA

Discussant

Leslie Leve

University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA

95 Genetic and parental influences on ADHD and educational attainment using Norwegian Mother, Father, and Child Cohort Study

Dinka Smajlagic1,2, Noemie Valenza-Troubat2, Kristen Kelly2, Emmanuel Sapin2, Xuanyu Lyu2, Alexandra Havdahl1,3,4,5, Hans Fredrik Sunde6, Fartein Ask Torvik6, Eivind Ystrøm1, Mona Bekkhus1, Matthew Keller2

1PROMENTA Research Centre, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. 2Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. 3PsychGen Centre for Genetic Epidemiology and Mental Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway. 4Nic Waals Institute, Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital, Oslo, Norway. 5Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom. 6Centre for Fertility and Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway

 

49 Developmental study of multi-trait genetic transmission and genetic nurture in educational achievement.

José J. Morosoli1,2,3, Andrea G. Allegrini1,4, Jean-Baptiste Pingault1,4

1University College London, London, United Kingdom. 2QIMR Berghofer, Brisbane, Australia. 3University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. 4King's College London, London, United Kingdom

 

91 Nonlinear Effects of Effortful Control on Behavioral Problems in Early Childhood: Moderation by Structured Home Environment (S)

Zhaoying Chen1, Jody Ganiban1, Misaki Natsuaki2, Jenae Neiderhiser3, Daniel Shaw4, Leslie Leve5

1Department of Psychological and Brain Science, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA. 2Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, USA. 3Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA. 4Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. 5Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA

 

120 Disambiguating Maternal and Fetal Genetic Effects Linking Perinatal and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes (S)

Lukas S. Schaffer1,2, Amir Sariaslan3, Jeremy M. Lawrence1,2, Sophie Breunig1,2, Isabelle F. Foote1, Michel Nivard4, Anna Gui5, Angelica Ronald6, Andrew D. Grotzinger1,2

1Institute for Behavioral Genetics, Boulder, CO, USA. 2Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA. 3Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. 4Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom. 5Department of Psychology, University of Essex, Essex, United Kingdom. 6School of Psychology, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom



Symposium: Examining Heterogeneity in the Genetic Architecture of Substance Use Behaviors and Disorders

15:30 - 16:40 Saturday, 28th June, 2025

Location White Hall 207


 

15 Examining Heterogeneity in the Genetic Architecture of Substance Use Behaviors and Disorders

Chair

Jared Balbona

Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, USA

Discussant

Emma Johnson

Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, USA

80 Sex-Specific Genetic Effects in Substance Use Disorders: A Meta-Analysis of Sex-Stratified GWAS Across Over 2.2 Million Individuals

Jared V Balbona1, Joseph D Deak2, Pamela N Romero-Villela1, Raymond K Walters3, Dongbing Lai4, Alex P Miller4, Alexander S Hatoum1, Renato Polimanti2, Howard J Edenberg4, Joel Gelernter2, Arpana Agrawal1, Emma C Johnson1

1Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine, Saint Louis, USA. 2Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA. 3Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. 4Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, USA

 

22 Multidimensional Genetic Influences Across Alcohol Use Behaviors and Their Intermediate Pathways

Jeanne Savage

Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands

 

86 Genome-wide association meta-analysis of early onset cannabis use and genetic links with related phenotypes and developmental trajectories

Alex Miller1, Jared Balbona2, Emma Johnson2, Arpana Agrawal2

1Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, USA. 2Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA

 

149 Detecting rGE between Exposome Factors and Polygenic Risk Scores for Substance Use Disorders in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study

I-Tzu Hung1, Nathaniel Thomas1, Brion Maher2, Ran Barzilay3,4, Tyler Moore3,4, Elina Visoki3, Nathan Gillespie5, David Sosnowski2, Julia Felton6, Jill Rabinowitz1

1Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA. 2Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA. 3Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, USA. 4University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA. 5Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA. 6Wayne State University, Detroit, USA



Symposium: Beyond Nuclear Families: What do we gain from extended family members in behavioral genetic research?

15:30 - 16:40 Saturday, 28th June, 2025

Location White Hall 208


 

11 Beyond Nuclear Families: What do we gain from extended family members in behavioral genetic research?

Chair

Xuanyu Lyu

University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, USA

Discussant

S. Alexandra Burt

Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA

123 50 ways to leave your starting values: Model estimation lessons from a 4-million-person extended family

Michael Hunter

The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

 

141 Tracing Mitochondrial Inheritance of Alzheimer's Disease: A Family-Based Case-Control Study of 4.8 Million Cousins

S. Mason Garrison1, M. Nithya Mylakumar2, Xuanyu Lyu3, Margaret Gatz4, Michael Hunter5, S. Alexandra Burt2

1Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, USA. 2Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA. 3University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA. 4University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. 5The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

 

58 Using Extended Twin Family Designs to Differentiate Multiple Causes of Parent-Offspring Similarity

Tong Chen1, Xuanyu Lyu1,2, Matthew C. Keller1,2

1Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA. 2Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA

 

131 What correlations between relatives-in-law on polygenic scores can tell us about assortative mating (V)

Nikolai Haahjem Eftedal1, Xuanyu Lyu2,3,4, Matthew Keller3,4

1Promenta Research Centre, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. 2Department of Psychology, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA. 3Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA. 4Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA

 

136 A Statistical Review of Indirect Effects Models with Simulation

Xuanyu Lyu, Tong Chen, Dinka Smajlagic, Noemie Valenza-Troubat, Matthew C Keller

University of Colorado, Boulder, USA



Executive Committee Meeting (By Invitation)

16:40 - 17:30 Saturday, 28th June, 2025

Location White Hall 200



Banquet Dinner

18:30 - 22:00 Saturday, 28th June, 2025

Location The Chapel on Sycamore


I: IDEA Presentation

P: Public Science Presentation

S: Student Award

V: Virtual Presentation